On 2009/02/05 17:38 (GMT-0800) Jerry Houston composed:
On Thursday 05 February 2009 17:20:12 Felix Miata wrote:
Unless someone can name an email app that prohibits its user from editing, typing in or pasting in the email address he wishes it sent to, you're wrong to say he's wrong. It doesn't matter what any buttons do as long as the user can get it sent to whatever address he wishes.
Not so. That's like saying nobody needs a calculator as long as they have a paper and pencil.
Hardly...
Software is supposed to make our lives easier and better.
In this case, the easier and better overall is munging, which negatively impacts a trivial number of list subscribers, and makes it easier for the huge majority, regardless which email app they use, that has no need to reply privately.
There's nothing about manually editing To: lines that I consider easier or better than an email client that simply does things right when you click "send".
That's irrelevant. My statement was a response to '"removes your ability to reply only to the sender"'. which amounts to a paraphrase of 'Reply-To munging destroys the "reply-to-author" capability' from http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Munging neither removes nor destroys the ability to reply to the author. Nothing was mentioned or implicit in what was mentioned about changing the difficulty of addressing that reply. See "Principle of Least Total Work" on http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html -- "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up." Ephesians 4:29 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org